A Muslim Childhood
2005 · Movie · 90 min. · Morocco
This film, the first in what has become a semi-autobiographical trilogy for Smihi, follows the everyday experiences of Mohamed-Larbi Salmi against the changing Moroccan society. In 1950s Tangier, Larbi Salmi is a young, timid, pre-teen, boy, trying to make sense of the gentle religious upbringing of his father, the secular education offered him in French school, and his budding desires for the forbidden pleasures of the cinema and the women he meets through it.
Direction Moumen Smihi
Cast Abdesslam Begdouri · Nadia Alami · Said Amel · Bahija Hachami · Rim Taoud · Khouloud · Issam Fiyache
Screenplay Moumen Smihi
Cinematography Robert Alazraki · Abdelkrim Derkaoui · Thierry Lebigre
Original title El ayel
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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